The Washington critic., 1887-09-08
TOPICS or THE DAY.


Professor Julius II. Seelyo Of Amherst
College was one of the guests. lie Il
in his G3d year, with pleasant New
England typical face The Professors
first efforts In the way Of preaching
began up In Syracuse, N. Y, back in
1853, where be was pastor of the Re.
formed Dutch Church, and from which
he graduated, with the consent of the
trustees, because his views of this life
and of the future had broadened out
before the limits laid down by that
sturdy and conservative old faith. He
then took up his career as q teacher.
and las won place among the most
auOCcssful aud best liked educators IN
1hg lUul. Only once did the Professor
leave lis beloved books, and that was
In 1854. when, without "a nomination OF
my Kind, without the expenditure of
'iHsle dollar, by an uprising Of the
people against the Republican ma
chine, he was elected to Congress from
his home dlstrict IN Massachusetts,. But
one term was enough for him. and he
was glad to get back to his quiet library
at Amherst, from the seclusion Of
which not even the offer to make him
Governor of Massachusetts, has tampled
the great scholar.
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Concerning Henry Willard, the New
York correspondent of the Philaiel.
phia Times says; Mr.. Willard Is now
flfty.four years old and is bell ed to
be worth million or more. lie is a
Bsvarian by birth and his real name Is
Heinrich Hilgnrd, although he long
since abandoned 1t for reasons OF his
own. Some say he dropped 1t as soon
as he landed In this country, because,
after several vain attempts to procure
situation, he was advised to try
under another name" and others say
lie did not think 1t euphonious enough
and so discarded 1t after leaving home
TO his personal friends he never men.
tions the subject, and If others are
rash enough TO question him about it
they usually go or with the
proverbial flea In their eur. Al.
though newspaper man In early
life, he Is now one of the most
reiicent of the Wall street leaders, ri.
valing the little Wizard himself In the
manner In which he forgets to tell his
plans. At fifty.four his health aud
appetite are good, and he Is said to
sleep like conscience clear boy of
twelve. His friends believe In him
thoroughly and they are willing to bet
that ten more years will ace him ia pos.
session of all his former prestige, with
considerably more added to It, He
married daughter of William Lloyd
Garrison ip 1866.
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Thus morallzes the Philadelphia
Meas on Miss Grundys Summer !"
The out.of town season Is over. The
hotel-koeper is busy balancing his
books. Mr., Gruudy is figuring on his
check stubs TO see what the summer
has cost him, and Mrs. Grundy is back
on Chestnut strces planning for the
winter season. But what of Miss
Grundy? She is back, too, but not the
game Miss Grundy who left the city In
July. Her complexion Is little less
fresh, her laugh Is not quite as frank,
her smile not quite as Ingenious. The
summer has cost her something, and
that not a little. Three months nc the
seaside, with long, Idle mornings,
and nothing to think about
but last evening, which had
better be forgotten a succession Of
men who wOrshiped at her shrine,
honest, manly fellows, some Of them,
who meant what they said and said a
great deal Can any woman dance TO
such n tune as this and not pay the
piper2 II Is pleasant at first, this ad-
miration, the variety and novelty OF II
all. But no woman can smile tho same
smile on procession of summer nd
mirers and not lose some little of her
womanliness. 1t Is wrong, pitiably
wrong, this summer acquaintance bust
ness, and while papa is casting up his
accounts Miss Grundy has debit and
credit to foot up in which she is, alas
the loser.
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Says Mcfarland In the Philadelphia
Rccord: General Greely has taken dowr
the Weather Bureau vaues, anemome
tiers, thermometers and other weather
measurers and indicators from the rooi
of the building on G. street, near tht
War Department, where they have
stood since the Weather Bureau wa,
first established under General Alher
J. Myers, "Old Probabilities He l.
about 10 put them up again, am told
on top of one of the most interesting
old buildings in Washington. 1t /:
what Ia known as the OctGgOn House
low and broad structure of Englsl
brick, built early In the century by OnI
of n al ~ hat 10
Washington, aud now belonging to til,
Taylor estate. IT really has eight side
or faces, and 1t also has heavily grated
windows, fine old. fashioned entrauc,
and substantial sort of q EhOst, wht
makes rs much noise as though still
alive, The house faces obliquely
toward the Potomac nj three o
four blocks distance from It., and
about the same distance from thu
White House, II was the Executive
Mansion itself once upon time, for I
was there that President Madison re
sided while the White House was be
ing repaired after General Ross
soldiers had gone through 1t. No onl
but the ghost has lived in It for year
and years, although Hester Clymcr o
Pennsylvania talked of doing so jus
before he died. | don't know wha
The ghost will say to General Greedy
intrusion, but | would not be surprised
II The Feismometer which is kept wait
ing for earthquakes all the time shoult
some night record shock such as tha
earthquake" has never felt
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The st. Paul Globe says of Senator
Beck and Blackburn of Kentucky: "D
You know Beck and Blackburn, tn